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The Tang Dynasty's ...

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Military accomplishments:

- Took over Manchuria 
- Placed the Korean Silla Dynasty under Tang control 
- Conquered the northern section of Vietnam 
- Took part of Tibet (Traditions and Encounters, p. 379)
- Extended to the Aral Sea (Traditions and Encounters, p. 379)

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Economic Development

- Fast ripening rice was found in Vietnam
        - led to a surplus of food, 
        - foundation of economic development (Traditions and Encounters, p. 383)
- Increased food supplies led to urbanization (Traditions and Encounters, p. 384)
- Equal Field System
- Farmers grew native crops and then exported them (Traditions and Encounters, p. 385)
- Paper money (Traditions and Encounters, p. 389)
- Trade = exposure to more cultures, luxury goods, and merchant communities (Traditions and Encounters, p. 390-391)

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Cultural Achievements

- Bureaucracy of merit led to the Civil Service Examination 
- Foreign religions such as Nestorian Christians, Manichaeans, Muslims (Traditions and Encounters, p. 392)
- Buddhism, Daoism, Chan Buddhism, Neo-Confucianism
- Influenced Korea and Japan (Traditions and Encounters, p. 396)

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